Afternoona Asks: Our Story
Grace & Sarah met via our sister pod Afternoona Delight - we became Patreons and we found our people - those who wanted to debate, discuss and delve into KDramas as much as we did. But with this obsession came questions. SO MANY QUESTIONS. So we needed a podcast to try get the answers to ours and your questions that come as we binge.
As diaspora Asians living in the West, we found so many ways to reconnect with our Asian culture via Asian/KDramas and we hope you find us sharing our experience useful as we collectively binge our Asian dramas!
Meet your hosts
Sarah
Sarah is a British Born HK Chinese and posts obsessively on Instagram @kdramathis. She also blogs reviews on her website KDramathis.com.
She tries to fit in as many dramas into her day and nights, between her job at the University of Cambridge, her political activism and looking after 2 children. She speaks Cantonese and HK-accented Mandarin.
She always knits or crochets to drama and you can check out her crafting Instagram @knitcrochetrepeat.
Her political profile is on Twitter @scjlibdem.
She lives with her mixed neurodivergent and neurotypical family in Cambridge, UK.
Grace
Grace is a Korean American former lawyer and current full time parent.
She speaks a bit of Korean, but is working on getting better.
She watches dramas, ice skates, and thinks about going back to school in her free time.
She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
Afternoona Asks ND: Our Story
Sarah met J & Fran via Twitter and invited them onto our sister pod Afternoona Delight to discuss Autistic Representation in Extraordinary Attorney Woo. We got great feedback from that episode so we recorded more and decided to make Afternoona Asks ND (Neurodivergent) podcast the place to discuss Autistic representation via KDramas.
We're here for straight talk, standing up for representation, breaking down stereotypes and challenging ableist perceptions.
If you've want to explore the Autistic and/or ADHD experience via Korean and other Asian dramas you've come to the right place.
We're here to discuss all kinds of neurodivergencies with a dose of scientific research and our own lived experience sprinkled on top.
Meet your hosts
Sarah
Sarah is a British Born HK Chinese and posts obsessively on Instagram @kdramathis. She also blogs reviews on her website KDramathis.com.
She tries to fit in as many dramas into her day and nights, between her job at the University of Cambridge, her political activism and looking after 2 children. She speaks Cantonese and HK-accented Mandarin.
She always knits or crochets to drama and you can check out her crafting Instagram @knitcrochetrepeat.
Her political profile is on Twitter @scjlibdem.
She lives with her mixed neurodivergent and neurotypical family in Cambridge, UK.
Fran
Fran is German but has spent the past 10 years living all over Europe. She is self-diagnosed Autistic and ADHD and fell into the K-drama and K-Pop rabbit hole during the later stages of the Covid pandemic.
She tweets as @wanderingfranzi and occasionally writes in-depth analysis on k-dramas on tumblr as treesswayinginthewind.
She's BTS army with a Suga bias and likes her KDramas with a bit of trauma, layered characters and some good character development.
In her daytime job she divides her time between an office job investigating groundwater and soil pollution from industrial sites and a freelance job working with kids in outdoor and environmental education.
She posts on Instagram as @leshachikha about her life and travels and as @wanderingfranzi for all the k-drama and K-Pop content.
Jay
Jay is an indigenous Canadian who moved to Australia in 2009. She has graduate degrees in anthropology and has worked on various community research projects.
She was formally diagnosed autistic at 50 after her initial lightbulb moment at her child’s assessment about a decade ago.
Her favourite Kdrama and Cdrama preferred genres include fantasy/xiānxiá, sageuk, thriller, and BL. Music-wise, you’ll find The Rose, BTS, Stray Kids, SHINee, and EXO on her playlists. She’s also an avid reader of everything from urban fantasy to cultural studies to dānměi to autistic adult memoirs.
When she’s not gardening, playing Pokémon Go, or trying to make friends with the magpies in her street, she’s trying new recipes or digging around in census records for her family tree. She lives with her neurodivergent family and sassy spoiled cat in the coffee capital of the world, Melbourne.
She posts about Kpop, dramas, and autism on Instagram as @theflowerthatbloomsalone